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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 spindling
 (a.)細長的;苗條的
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Spin·dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Spindled p. pr. & vb. n. Spindling ] To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
    It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality.   --Lowell.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Spin·dling a. Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
 Syn: -- spindly.
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